Running Update!!

Last Sunday I had my race! My goodness it was awesome! At least during it, it was awesome. After is a WHOLE nother story. Is "nother" a word? It really should be considering thats exactly what it sounds like when I say it. Plus, "whole another" just sounds wrong.

Anyways! The reason why I said it was horrible after my race is because for some reason I get SO sick after my races. I think it's because I push myself so hard that I even forget to breathe when im running. Yeah, probs not a good idea. I also heard that when you're running at such a high intensity, your blood goes to all the working muscles, aka my legs, and leaves the GI tract. Once im done running, apparently all of that blood rushes back to my GI tract and well, then we have some problems. These problems lasted from a 1/2 hour after my run (9:30 am) until 6 pm. Every 10 minutes. I was so weak afterwards, only drank gatorade, had chills, and ate toast. All day. Yes this is gross but i'm trying to find solutions to this!! Any runners out there want to share their input? I'm thinking my issue may be me consuming a 5-hour energy (the new pink lemonade one, ya know, for breast cancer month) a 1/2 hour before hand. It really made my heart pound like it was going to pop out of my chest. Not to mention I also had a little coffee. Yes, both combined IS on the route to a heart attack, I know. I did have a little food, some trail mix, but I also don't want to over do it with food before because you never know what's going to happen while you're running lol.

Soooo the results of the race?! I GOT FIRST!! For my age group, at least. I got a cute wine glass for winning my age group (20-25 yr olds). I think there were around 200-250 women in my age group? So, not too shabby! Not to be a cocky carol (yep, made that up), but I usually get 1st, 2nd, or 3rd for my age group in every race. This was my best 15k time of 1:06:19. My old PR was 1:06:40. I know it was only 21 seconds of a difference but it makes a huge difference in races. I also got a little lost during the race because towards the end, there wasn't anyone visible in front or behind me so i had to find the race route on my own. It really wasn't a very organized race since there were only a few arrows telling you where to turn and whatnot, therefore I went off track for about 20 seconds in the wrong direction. Once I realized the race was probably not supposed to lead me to an interstate, I stopped and said hm, maybe I should go the other way? Glad I did.

After my draining Sunday morning, I spent all day in bed watching movies. I NEVER do this so it was quite relaxing (when I wasn't running back and forth to the toilet. lol. ew). I watched knocked up (for the 504th time), Step Brothers and Eat Pray Love. My gosh is the latter an AMAZING movie! So good for those who feel like they're lost and unsure of themselves. It's so inspirational and I love Julia Roberts! She has such a huge smile. So big that its kinda awkward.

I just threw my gum across my office to try to make it in the garbage and it stuck to the wall. Ha, can't use the old backboard strategy with gum, I guess.

Right now i'm sitting in my office at work finishing up a project while listening to Tay Swift. Her new CD came out today!!!!!!! I love her! I think it's cause I feel like I can sing just as good as her. Plus, many of her songs are so relatable. Just not the stupid "never ever ever ever ever ever ever getting back together" song. Nope, that's just annoying.. we get it. EVER!


Time to start working on my internship hours. Since I have already finished my food service hours and nutrition education hours (about 400 hrs), I'm currently looking for hospitals and nursing homes who will be my preceptors and teach me the necessary objectives I need to learn for my RD exam. It stinks cause I need to call all of the hospitals and nursing homes around me that will take me (P.S if anybody has good contacts with hospitals, nursing homes, diabetes centers, cancer centers, or outpatient centers PLEASE let me know if you can help me out!!). Then I need to make sure they get in contact with my internship director at FSU and they need to sign contracts and approvals to ensure it's alright for me to work with them. TEDIOUS!! It will all be worth it in the end! Registed Dietitian here I come!


I think that's enough venting for the day :)

Peace.